howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A guide to surviving a dinner party without making a complete prat of oneself.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-use-gender-neutral-wordsBrian Dixon
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H, a spade is a spade in whatever guise shape or form it manifests it self in.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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I believe crap is gender neutral.
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Jan Higgins
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Paul Watkins wrote:I believe crap is gender neutral.
That made me laugh out loud.
Ladies and Gentlemen and those who are a Rainbow
, here are some of the terms we are now supposed to use, sorry but I am a rebel on this subject.
Folks, folx, or everybody instead of guys or ladies/gentleman
Humankind instead of mankind
People instead of man/men
Members of Congress instead of congressmen
Councilperson instead of councilman/councilwoman
First-year student instead of freshman
Machine-made, synthetic, or artificial instead of man-made
Parent or pibling instead of mother/father
Child instead of son/daughter
Kiddo instead of boy/girl
Sibling instead of sister/brother
Nibling instead of niece/nephew
Partner, significant other, or spouse instead of girlfriend/boyfriend or wife/husband
Flight attendant instead of steward/stewardess
Salesperson or sales representative instead of salesman/saleswoman
Server instead of waiter/waitress
Firefighter instead of fireman
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Courtesy of the Times.
The majority of alleged sexual attacks at Britain’s public swimming pools and sports centres occur in unisex changing rooms, according to data obtained by The Sunday Times. Nine out of ten changing-room sexual complaints relate to incidents in unisex facilities — although they make up less than half of all provision. Gender-neutral changing is growing as councils seek to cut staff costs and cater to transgender people. But one MP said it was a “magnet” for sex offenders and increased the risk to women and girls.
At least two-thirds of all sex incidents in public pools and leisure centres, whether inside or in the grounds, happen in unisex changing areas. Only a handful occur in single-sex changing rooms, the figures, released under freedom of information (FoI) laws, show. David Davies, MP for Monmouth, said the data showed it would be “wrong and dangerous” for the government to pursue controversial plans for transgender people to “self-identify” as women. Feminists claim that the proposals, which are out for consultation, will turn every female facility into a mixed space, allowing any man to identify as a woman and enter. Campaigners do not suggest that the threat to women comes from trans people, but from men.
“These figures show that women and girls are more vulnerable in mixed changing rooms and that these places are a magnet for sexual offenders,” Davies said. “It simply doesn’t make sense to enable men to have greater access to women’s spaces. The reforms to gender recognition will grant that access.” Trans campaigners have dismissed concerns about women’s safety in gender-neutral spaces, with one prominent trans activist, Paris Lees, saying that “making bathrooms more trans-friendly hasn’t led to any problems”. However, Nicola Williams, the spokeswoman for Fair Play for Women, countered that the new figures “clearly disproved” this claim. Data emerged four days after Darren Johnson, a serial voyeur, was sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment after stalking schoolgirls in the unisex changing area of Putney leisure centre in southwest London. Johnson was caught after two 14-year-olds spotted his smartphone poking through a gap from the adjoining cubicle. When police raided his house, they found 150 files of photos taken at the leisure centre. A second voyeur, Anthony Gomes, was caught in the same unisex changing area a few weeks later.
Johnson was co-founder of the children’s soft play chain Eddie Catz, where he also filmed his staff and customers via peepholes. His was one of two cases of voyeurism in unisex changing rooms to come up for sentence last week alone.
There were 134 complaints of sexual misconduct in sports centre and swimming pool changing rooms last year, councils said in their FoI responses. Of these, 120 related to incidents that took place in unisex changing rooms and 14 to incidents in single-sex changing rooms. As well as voyeurism, offences recorded in unisex facilities included harassment, sexual assault and rape. In 46 more cases, councils said, sex incidents were reported in other parts of the premises, such as in or beside the pool, in sports halls, corridors or car parks or an area of the building they could not specify. Some of those not specified could also have been in changing rooms. Not all incidents were reported to police or resulted in prosecutions.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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wench,waif,and knobend are all pc. lol
Captain Haddock
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And interestingly, the increasingly popular 'fashion' for gender dysphoria amongst the young would appear to be, in many cases, a load of balls rather than a lack of balls - though I must admit I have had some experience of feeling trapped inside a woman's body myself - though not recently.
From the Economist:- Why are so many teenage girls appearing in gender clinics?
A new paper suggests this may be partly a social phenomenon
JANETTE MILLER wasn’t exactly surprised when her daughter came out as transgender five years ago. A feminist who rarely wears make-up or dresses, she brought Rachel up to disregard gender stereotypes (these are not their real names). As a child Rachel enjoyed rough-and-tumble play; as a teenager, she dated a girl. What shocked Ms Miller was her daughter’s declaration that she wished to make her body more masculine by taking testosterone and having a mastectomy. “She had never once said, ‘I feel like a boy’,” says Ms Miller. “She loved being a girl.”
After Ms Miller started to research what a medical transition entailed, she told Rachel that “it was fine for her to identify however she wanted”, but she would not permit her to take testosterone, some of the effects of which are irreversible, or have “top surgery” until she was 18. They fought for months. Rachel says it felt “almost like a life-or-death situation.”
Typically, adolescents first show symptoms of gender dysphoria, the clinical term for the distress caused by the feeling that one’s body does not match one’s gender, in childhood. But in the past decade clinics in Western countries have reported that a growing number of teenagers have started experiencing gender dysphoria during or after puberty. And whereas these young adults used to be predominantly male, now they are more likely to be female. In 2009, 41% of the adolescents referred to Britain’s Gender Identity Development Service were female; in 2017, 69% were.
Lisa Littman, an assistant professor of behavioural and social sciences at Brown University, was curious about what was causing these changes. She had come across reports from parents on online forums describing a new pattern of behaviour: adolescents without a history of childhood gender dysphoria were announcing they were transgender after a period of immersing themselves in niche websites or after similar announcements from friends. Her study suggests that these children may be grappling with what she calls “rapid-onset gender dysphoria”.
For the study, Dr Littman recruited 256 parents of children whose symptoms of gender dysphoria suddenly appeared for the first time in adolescence. These parents—Ms Miller among them—took part anonymously in an online, 90-question survey. Dr Littman’s findings suggest that a process of “social and peer contagion” may play a role. According to the parents surveyed, 87% of children came out as transgender after spending more time online, after “cluster outbreaks” of gender dysphoria in friend groups, or both. (In a third of the friendship groups, half or more of the individuals came out as transgender; by contrast, just 0.7% of Americans aged between 18 and 24 are transgender.) Most children who came out became more popular as a result. Rachel, Ms Miller’s daughter, says that when she told her friends, all of whom she had met online, they congratulated her: “It was, like, welcome home.”
Dr Littman thinks that some adolescents may embrace the idea that they are transgender as a way of coping with symptoms of a different, underlying issue. Almost two-thirds of the children had one or more diagnoses of a psychiatric or developmental disorder preceding the onset of gender dysphoria; nearly half had self-harmed or experienced some trauma. This is consistent with other studies of gender dysphoria when it sets in during puberty. Some people distract themselves from emotional pain by drinking, taking drugs, cutting or starving themselves. Dr Littman suggests that, for some, gender dysphoria may also be in this category.
The study has attracted heavy criticism. Some is reasonable. Though it is a solid first attempt to describe a recently observed phenomenon, it is qualitative rather than quantitative, and relies solely on interviews with parents, not children. Dr Littman posted links to her survey on three websites where parents and clinicians had described the abrupt appearance of adolescent gender dysphoria: 4thWaveNow, Transgender Trend and youthtranscriticalprofessionals. Referring to these sites as “anti-trans”, Diane Ehrensaft, the director of mental health at a gender clinic in San Francisco, has written that “this would be like recruiting from Klan or alt-right sites to demonstrate that blacks really are an inferior race”. Dr Littman replies that 88% of the parents in her study said transgender people deserve the same rights as others, which is in line with national opinion. Similar methodology is frequently used in social research, particularly into children.
The reaction to publication of the study has gone beyond what might be expected in a regular academic dispute. Brown removed from its website a press release advertising her research, noting that PLOS ONE, the journal in which the study was published, was seeking “further expert assessment”. In a later statement, the university said: “There is an added obligation for vigilance in research design and analysis any time there are implications for the health of the communities at the centre of research and study.” Parents and academics have in turn attacked Brown for caving to pressure from trans activists.
Squashing research risks injuring the health of an unknown number of troubled adolescent girls. Rachel, now 21, believes she latched on to a trans identity as a way of coping with on-off depression and being sexually abused as a child. After receiving therapy, her gender dysphoria disappeared. Had her mother affirmed her gender identity as a 16-year-old, as several gender therapists urged, Rachel would have embarked on a medical transition that she turned out not to want after all.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
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What a brave new world we're building, cont...
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
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Can't see Alice Cooper agreeing with that.
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(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1
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It's a funny old world
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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About as funny as gangrene. Wait until you get your census form.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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I've got so confused with all the gender terms, I'm scared to mention any of them anymore in case I use the wrong term.
My organisation now encourages a descriptor in our work email signature that states - (pronoun he / him / his) or whatever pronouns you decide to use.
Whatever you might think, it can actually help when dealing with a Chris or Alex or Mel.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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You obviously need this AP. Though I cannot help but think there's a 'TEE' missing from the middle of that Twitter name.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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I would dearly love to be able to dismiss this utter nonsense but my fear is that it’s becoming very dangerous- we're being brainwashed by a dangerous minority group. But everyone is fearful of speaking out against this lobby.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Arthur wrote:I would dearly love to be able to dismiss this utter nonsense but my fear is that it’s becoming very dangerous- we're being brainwashed by a dangerous minority group. But everyone is fearful of speaking out against this lobby.
Unfortunately not just "this lobby" almost anything one says has to be carefully worded for fear of upsetting some ultra sensitive person or group. There are a couple that irritate me, you can no longer mention a misbehaving child as it always seems to be autistic never just naughty. The other one is the use of 'black' when one is referring to someone who is whatever shade of brown they happen to be.
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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From my professional career I can say with confidence that “autism” has taken over from dyslexia as being the most over diagnosed condition currently fashionable.
I understand that many people have reading and writing problems, that doesn’t make them dyslexic. Many people have social interaction issues, that doesn’t make them autistic. No doubt my views will upset many.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Arthur wrote:...we're being brainwashed by a dangerous minority group. But everyone is fearful of speaking out against this lobby.
I'm afraid the 'dangerous minority group' are in government. It took the House of Lords today to have 'pregnant mothers' replace the 'pregnant people' in legislation approved by ministers. Still, little acorns and all that.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I think we are on the same page
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Just Sioux
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What’s wrong with Squaw?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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nowt